Autumn Quotes
213 quotes
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
"Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground."
"I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red."
"I love like a leaf in the wind. Please, hold your applause until the end of the performance (the last day of fall)."
"A tree with red leaves is like an old man with gray hair. Likewise, my love for you was blue, but now it’s orange, and that’s a compliment."
"It was a cold night, so I got a fire going. I lit a scented candle."
"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."
"I was gardening when I saw this snail/slug thing disguised as a leaf. Ah, isn't fall a wonderful time to slowly fall in love?"
"I watched the leaves change colors, and I thought, “People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly less honking."
"There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."
"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."
"Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods."
"The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bending down."
"Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full."
"Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin."
"As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave … overtook him with unwanted intensity."
"Brilliant boom of Spring is nothing if not for the timely death of Autumn~"
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
"THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time."
"Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart."
"Life is like an Autumn short but colourful."
"Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination."
"The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing."
"Easter blessingsAll life’s sacrifices like autumn leavesawaken our sensesand power to love and be wholeOur Mother Earth, Our Father Skyembraces our happiness and laughterPraise be to freedom and life’s seasonsPraise be to Christ’s freedom song"
"As the season changes, we learn to adapt."
"Watch the beauty of your life tree old leaves falling and allowing new ones to sprout !"
"She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened."
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal"
"And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God."
Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
"I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of hope; summer is freedom; autumn is a colourful release, and winter brings an enchanting peace. It's hard to pick which one I enjoy the most — each time the new one arrives, I remember its beauty and forget the previous one whose qualities have started to dim."
"I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter."
"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple."
"For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea."
"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h"
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
"Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything."
"I saw old Autumn in the misty mornStand shadowless like silence, listeningTo silence, for no lonely bird would singInto his hollow ear from woods forlorn,Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; --Shaking his languid locks all dewy brightWith tangled gossamer that fell by night,Pearling his coronet of golden corn."
"Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary."
"Why do some trees stay green while others change their color?”“Certain trees need to show off, dear. I’m sure that my big brother could explain why it happens. Dahlaine loves to explain things, and he can be very tedious about it. I prefer simpler answers. The trees are sad because summer’s almost over."
"She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains. She could even feel the cool moisture as the rain drops touched her face and ran down her cheeks. Her denim skirt and work boots felt heavy as the rain in her dreams splashed cold water against them"
"If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season."
"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."
"On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall."
"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"
"Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love."
"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."
"Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back."
"My months are spent preparing for the fall."
"The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers."
"Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet."
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